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conscience, religion and equality." Andy Irfan
Junaidi, coordinator for KONTRAS in Semarang, said that Tajul was not provoking inter-faith conflict like several earlier "deviant" leaders, but only practicing Shiite as it is done internationally. He argued that if the government wished to find Tajul guilty of blasphemy, it would have to declare Shiite deviant throughout Indonesia.
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objected to his detention, stating, "He is a prisoner of conscience and should be released immediately and unconditionally. These blasphemy laws are fundamentally incompatible with
Indonesia’s international human rights obligations to protect and respect freedom of expression, and freedom of thought,
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police questioned Tajul about the potential blasphemy charges. He was charged on 16 March under
Article 156a of the Criminal Code for "defamation of religion" and Article 335 of the Criminal Code for "unpleasant acts", which carries a sentence of five years in prison. He was required to report to the
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were also burned to the ground. Iklil, present for the attack, later stated that he witnessed two police officers in the crowd standing still. He further alleged that though the police had sufficient warning of the protest, they took no action to stop the attack. A man named
Muslika was identified
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On 8 March 2012, a
Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (KONTRAS) advocacy team criticized the handling of the investigation and the continued threats against Sampang's Shiites, calling it "discriminative". Following the attack, KONTRAS also requested that Tajul and 22 of his
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On 26 August 2012, Tajul's community in
Sampang was attacked again by a 500-person mob. One man, Muhammad Hasyim, was killed and another hospitalized. Amnesty International called on Indonesia to investigate the attacks and take steps to protect the community in the future.
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On 29 December 2011, the pesantren was attacked by a group of armed anti-Shiite protesters. The pesantren buildings as well as the homes of Tajul Muluk and his brother Iklil were burned down, and Muluk and other group members were threatened with death; two other homes, a
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leaders of
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provincial police weekly. On 12 April, after reporting, he was arrested. As of 18 April, he was being held in a prison in
Sampang until his trial. According to his elder brother
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and arrested by police as one of the planners of the arson, but Tajul stated his belief that his brother Roisul was the attack's true leader.
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from newspapers sent by a friend in Iran in the early 1980s, Makmun sent his four children to a Shiite-dominated
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